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CNN’s Rick Sanchez became livid on his program Friday about a color ad that FOX News had placed in the September 17, 2009 edition of The Washington Post.
The ad contained a photo, which he said is suspiciously similar to a tower shot used by CNN of the Tea Party March on Washington D.C. The offending ad accused all of the major networks by name, including CNN, of intentionally not covering the event, and implying that only FOX covers “all” the news and no one else does. The event was referred to as a right-wing tea party and was heavily promoted and covered at FOX News.
Sanchez said FOX was “…using a lie to try and divide people into camps. And, you know, Americans are starting to get tired of this.”
Sanchez went on to use several methods to prove just how well the event was covered by CNN, showing a clip of the FOX News Bill O’Reilly program The O’Reilly Factor in which O'Reilly says on camera, “…CNN, as we mentioned, covered the anti-Obama protests, of course…”
As further proof, he ran several clips of CNN correspondents reporting on the event. CNN’s Paul Steinhauser reported on the route the protesters were taking and the approximate time the event would take place on the west front of the Capitol building. CNN correspondent Kate Bolduan reported on traffic conditions for the rally, helpfully mentioning that many were still stuck on Pennsylvania Avenue and that crowds were still coming from Freedom Plaza. CNN’s Lisa Desjardins interviewed protesters in the crowd indicating that they all very strongly supported Congressman Joe Wilson’s outburst at President Obama. One protester was so proud of his stand that when he realized he was on camera, he actually turned his sign around so that it couldn't be read by viewers!
Saving the best for last, Sanchez played coast-to-coast clips of CNN correspondent Jim Spellman who had traveled with the “Tea Party Express” to some 30 rallies, reporting on them in several newscasts as they traveled east to Washington D.C. Spellman reported on the growing numbers within the ranks of the protesters who loudly support “…outlandish conspiracy theories about death camps about this takeover, people comparing President Obama to Hitler. And it really is a sizable thread. It's not just a couple of people on the edges.”
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— go to most recent comments1 - Arch Conservative
Yawn.
I'm sure all 613 people who saw Dirty Sanchez give his little rant are really fired up now.
2 - Arch Conservative
I just can't stay away from this big red bullseye on a lazy Saturday morning.
Sanchez was right. CNN didn't promote the event but he was also wrong in that they weren't fair and balanced. They did everything the did to demean the event. That is obvious in the clips that Dirty Sanchez showed in his little Olbermann like hissy fit.
Here are some more videos that display just how "fair and balanced" CNN is...
CNN 1
CNN 2
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CNN 4
3 - Christopher Rose
Arch, you've been around Blogcritics long enough now to be well aware that we dislike raw urls and want them properly formatted. I've fixed the four above for you but please do it right in the future or I will delete them. If you don't yet know how, here is a very simple explanation of how to format a link.
4 - Jordan Richardson
Yeah, Arch, the whole Susan Roesgen tea party coverage crap (featured in every single one of your clips) is sticking like glue to most right-wing news outlets. I'm not at all surprised that your lazy Saturday turned up some of the laziest examples of CNN's biased coverage, but at least you did some legwork.
The truth is that Roesgen wasn't the most professional of reporters (who is in American media anymore?) but she did do her job of not simply letting ridiculous statements go unchallenged. She blamed FOX for supporting the tea parties and claimed them as anti-government and anti-CNN (huh?), but she didn't present anything that wasn't accurate in her reporting and there certainly wasn't anything in those clips to suggest CNN was being unfair in the tea party coverage.
And that's actually quite funny, Arch, because finding bias on CNN is so easy it's not even funny.
5 - Dave Nalle
Sanchez seems like a bit of a primadonna here. He's not exactly making a brilliant new discovery that Fox News is out to beat their competition by any means possible.
As for the coverage, if you call what Fox News did covering the event, then CNN did not cover the event in a meaningful way. Mostly they ignored it and occasionally they mocked it. It's not any better in its way than what Fox News did. It's just a different form of bad coverage.
Dave
6 - STM
Dirty Sanchez??
Lol.
7 - Clavos
Yet another example of why I don't turn on the TV for news.
All talking heads, regardless of network, are performers, not journalists. Ratings are the sine qua non of that business, which has zero resemblance to journalism.
8 - Jet Gardner
Awwww, you didn't like my story... and I stayed away so long too. darn
9 - Cindy D
*Turns on TV news*...their human form is a trick, a disguise of the Illuminati shape shifter...examining it frame by frame you can catch glimpses of their real nature ...you've got to look really closely......anchors morph into there true hidden form...red clown noses appear...then listen really closely and you might catch the other clue...do you hear it?...put your ear right up to the speaker...hold your breath...there seems to be faint circus music playing in the background.
10 - Jet Gardner
While it is true that a news organization is only as good as how much you agree with it, in this case CNN got it right in calling out Fox for implying that they "missed" this story and didn't cover it.
I have this fantasy that the commentors below are going to comment on the article instead of each other.
silly me...
11 - zingzing
a lot of people (those who fox was advertising to, i suppose,) didn't see fox's coverage of the tea party, and yet they knew about it. a lot of those same people knew about it because of tv news. so fox decided to run an ad aimed at people who might be interested in political news and like to get political news on television by stating that those same people hadn't seen the tea party coverage because they were watching another station. but they had. so they knew fox was lying out their ass. and that fox killed its husband.
12 - Cindy D
*hangs head in shame for not even looking at the article...decides to read it*
13 - Jet Gardner
Dear God...
14 - Cindy D
Well-written article Jet. Marginalization and politicizing taking place in the MSM.
15 - Cindy D
between them, rather
16 - Jet Gardner
Of course most right-wingers won't make it that far, but Rick pretty much speaks for himself in the video at the end of the article Cindy.
You can't argue (well they could I guess) with the evidence that's right in front of your eyes because everything he says is true and backed up with facts...
they lied!
17 - Jet Gardner
"Every loyal Republican in both houses of Congress is charged with only one important and sacred duty; to make sure that this president accomplishes little or nothing during this term... Period."
18 - Jet Gardner
Seeing is believing? Here's a video of a Fox News producer egging on an anti-Obama crowd-click here that she's just told was on camera.
19 - Arch Conservative
"I have this fantasy that the commentors below are going to comment on the article instead of each other."
And I have this fantasy where Susan Roesgen is naked, ballgag in mouth, on all fours, hands tied together underneath her, with Dick Cheney standing over her in full bondage gear, leather mask and all.
20 - Jet Gardner
Dear God Arch, and you guys call me a pervert???
21 - zingzing
"And I have this fantasy where Susan Roesgen is naked, ballgag in mouth, on all fours, hands tied together underneath her, with Dick Cheney standing over her in full bondage gear, leather mask and all."
ooo, a little voyeurism, archie? dick cheney as a dominatrix (although doesn't the gimp wear the leather mask?) is pretty fucking dark.
22 - zingzing
jet, that video is disturbing.
23 - Arch Conservative
I don't ever remember calling you a pervert Jet. But because we on BC so passionate about our politics I'd like you to flip the script and tell me it wouldn't get your motor going if it was Ann Coulter in the ball gag with Keith Olberman standing over her. I forgot you're gay though...........how about Keith Olbermann standing over Mitt Romney.
Huh....Huh?
24 - Cindy D
*tip toes out carefully, trying not to step in or touch anything*
25 - Jet Gardner
Please don't mention Ann Coulter I just spent a week figuring out how to get the bitch's ad for her book off of my political page... yuk
Zing, check out my new banner for my political page by clicking my URL...